Originally Posted by Sliceback

Add an 'R' to the NS (NSR) entry code. Use the long format - date, dep city, flt number, etc. Shows everyone who's ever been on the NS, and removed, from when the bids were awarded. "PU" in the right column is Paid Union Leave. It's how you can track how union officials and reps are using the system, often to their benefit.

They're not dumb. Some trip trade out of their PBS awarded trips and then use PU to drop the trips they pick up. So if you're tracking them you have to use the N3/N4's to figure out if they're picking up other trips. If they do a straight trip trade pilot to pilot they can try and hide when they PU that trip...unless the other pilot let's it be known that he traded with the rep/union official.

That's how reps/union officials hide how much time off they take during the summer or over the winter holidays (ie one 3 day trip over 35 days....the rest PU'd...). Or having weeks off except going to a 'team spirit' baseball game...weeks off except for the ball game. Or the guy that decided to reach out to the base and meet with the members - breakfast every Tuesday. Nothing unusual about that....except that he PU'd a 4 Asia trips....so a month off except for 4 paid breakfasts if anyone wanted to eat with him.

Mulitple ways they can keep their 'good guy' reputation out of the lights. The quote was "you just gotta be 'smart about it.'" :-/

Post their flown and removed status? What if foreign terrorists decided to target them? They'd be able to figure out their patterns. They can't let the members know for security reasons. Yes, this was actually said. No, he wasn't a senior guy. Actually junior at the time.